Dengue

According to the CIA world fact book website, The Philippines has an average infant mortality rate of 22.34 deaths per 1,000 live births and a life expectancy of about 69 years. The risk of getting typhoid fever, hepatitis A, Malaria, Dengue Fever, and many other illnesses are high due to the living conditions these people are born into. The percent of children underweight under the age of 5 years accounted for 20.2%. These facts made me realize that some areas of the Philippines are…

Fading Away Mosquito bites in babies Nothing is more annoying than waking up and finding your baby’s face full of ugly mosquito bites? At times, I really feel like why are they only after my baby? Why can’t they go someplace else? These blood-sucking creatures are really a menace and it hurts immensely to see that they have been feeding upon your child’s sweet blood. When mosquitoes bite babies, one can see small red bumps along with swelling around the bite and rashes. In severe cases, the…

or in the case of poison ivy, become more abundant and toxic. As for mosquitoes, they don't only bite more but due to the patterns of climate change, but perfect conditions are staged for theses insects who often carry malaria, West Nile virus, and dengue fever. These circumstances are to be expected in the near future, however there are some who claim differently such as Arlington, Texas, Mayor Dr. Robert Cluck who says, "There is no question that these [climate related] changes have already…

also emphasized that most countries used Brazil's successful elimination campaign in the 1980’s which focused on spraying homes and upgrading homes as the model for controlling Cagas and how it was cut short due to the emergence of yellow fever and dengue vectors in urban Brazil coastal cities. I then outlined and described the benefits and cost associated with INCOSUR. This was an important aspect of this case study as the Southern Cone Initiative can be considered one of the most cost…

going to be sent, sometimes they were also vaccinated for chlorea, typhus, yellow fever, and sometimes even bubonic plague. Usually the illnesses they got during battle were environment-related illnesses. These illnesses could be malaria, beriberi, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, or jungle rot. Illnesses from poor sanitation were also common. Dysentery, chlorea, hepatitis A or B were some of the more prominent…

Current technological innovations in the field of medicine have shed a positive light on society, by providing potential future benefits in different aspects of genetic engineering. This type of technology, which refers to the editing and screening of genes, has drastically increased in the last few decades. One example of this is editing embryos during development. In recent years, scientists have developed a piece of technology called CRISPR-Cas9. Specifically, it is used in editing human…

regions. (EyobZiona) Additionally, according to Science American, as the climate is being warmer, the Earth is more likely to be mosquito friendly place. Accordingly, the possibility of becoming infected with mosquitoes-borne diseases such as Malaria, Dengue fever and West Nile are increasing. (Meg Ross) As such, we can know that as the Earth is becoming warmer, the possibility of getting diseases is increasing, and one of the causes is same as global warming’s…

privilege of treating diseases at the infancy, but also has the huge responsibility of helping prevent spread of diseases in large scale. Thus family practioners stand as the first line of defense against deadly illnesses such as the likes Ebola, HIV and Dengue. Family Medicine provides variety, is intellectually challenging and provides you with the gratification of serving your patients for a long duration of time, often for life. So, a residency in family medicine will open a huge door of…

Each and every interest is established on intuition and memories. My interest in medicine has begun, even before I became much acquainted with science, when I was hospitalized with Dengue Fever during my middle school. I still remember myself lying on the hospital bed with on and off consciousness, my forearms having felt the teardrops of my mom and my desire to sit up and say her that I was fine although I could barely move any part of my body. Only due to the excellent care and treatment of…

MOMBASA ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Mombasa is an island in the southern part of Kenya. It is one of the 47 counties of Kenya being a historic island, with sandy beaches in additional of salty Indian Ocean waters; Mombasa is a favorite destination of many Tourists from all over the globe(S Nagai, & G Innocent 2015). However, in current days, Mombasa has been known to have much garbage. This is a resort of a high number of poor disposal of nonbiodegradable plastic waste and poor garbage management…